Reports

PHNOM PENH, 7 May 2009 (IRIN) - Coming only months after Asia's food crisis, the economic crisis has renewed food insecurity among women and children as incomes dip, even though prices have fallen, with the World Bank predicting that…

We, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar, the Republic…

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- A recent government survey has found that the rising cost of food has halted improvements in child health and nutrition in Cambodia, English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily said on Thursday. The percentage of…

Brief description of the project and framework conditions After many years of war, social and economic uncertainty, Phnom Penh today, is a booming city. With a high migration dynamic from (and within) the countryside, a large number…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Over 68,000 of Cambodia's poorest families have received emergency food assistance following the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors' approval of the project last month. Food distribution has been supervised by independent NGO monitors. "This assistance is making…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Cambodia's poorest families with $35 million in emergency food assistance as they struggle to cope with rising food and fuel prices. Poor families living around the Tonle Sap Lake, and in…

HANOI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Vietnam will spend nearly 2.4 trillion dong ($145 million) between now and 2010 to build dykes and relocate thousands of rice farmers because of heavy seasonal flooding in its fertile Mekong river delta. The programme,…

(Adds Cambodia's warning, floods in Thailand paragraphs 4-5) By Ho Binh Minh HANOI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Rising Mekong floods upstream may cause landslides and deep inundation in Cambodia and southern Vietnam but the seasonal floodwater would also bring farmers good crops…

1. Introduction As in 2006, the 2007 Annual Flood Report aims to fill two primary roles, (i) to provide a summary of flood conditions in the Mekong Region over the year, and (ii) to collate the relevant…

In 1989, Action Against Hunger launched programmes in Cambodia in a relatively difficult post-crisis environment. Numerous events - such as the Indochina War, the terror regime of the Khmer Rouge during which more than a million people lost their…